Have Discipline or Performance Problems? Take the Right Forking Path

By Dan Gephart, December 15, 2020 Back in pre-GPS days, my older brother and his wife were driving to a holiday celebration at her family’s house in a small backwoods New Jersey town. They were still many miles away from their destination when they hit a fork in the...

Top 10 FELTG Newsletter Stories of 2020

By Dan Gephart, December 7, 2020 Our last newsletter of the year will be published next week. So barring any major late-breaking news, this is the final FELTG Flash of 2020. As we’ve done the last couple of years (2019, 2018), we’d like to take this opportunity to...

And Now Another Word With … Bob Lavigna

By Dan Gephart, November 23, 2020 On the heels of positive vaccine news, talk about the eventual return to workplace normalcy has picked up. But that normalcy does not necessarily mean a sudden end to remote working, especially if government workers have a say....

Threats of Violence: Assessing Risk and Taking Action

By Dan Gephart, November 17, 2020 While the nation is grappling with a pandemic, the government’s most well-known scientist has been besieged with death threats. And as more than 150 million people exercised their right to vote earlier this month, state and local...

And Now a Word With … Bob Lavigna

By Dan Gephart, November 10, 2020 We’re still a good half-year away from the next Public Service Recognition Week, but we need not wait until May 2021 to recognize the critical work civil servants have done over the last several months. You know it’s a challenging...

Don’t Ignore the Energy Vampires, Zoom Zombies, or Garish Ghouls

By Dan Gephart, October 14, 2020 This time of year is celebrated widely and wildly in the neighborhood where I once lived. Faux spider webs, mock tombstones, humongous inflatable black cats, and DIY haunted garages would overtake North Palm Beach Heights, drawing...

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